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By Ferdinand L. Matthay. 



THE CURE OF DISEASE 



BY 



Osteopathy, Hydropathy 
and Hygiene. 



A BOOK FOR THE PEOPLE. 



Giving directions for the Treatment and Cure of 
Diseases Without the Use of Drug Medicines. 



Fully Illustrated with Half-tone Photographs. 

ALSO, 

VALUABLE RULES OF HEALTH 



DR. F\ L. MflTTHAY. 



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TO MY NOBLE AND 
HONORABLE GRANDFATHER 

FERDINAND GOTTSCHALK ~K~l 
OF 
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, 

THIS VOLUME IS AFFECTIONATELY 

DEDICATED, AS A TOKEN OF 

GRATITUDE AND ESTEEM, 

BY 

THE AUTHOR. 



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INTRODUCTION. 

This book is intended as a guide for the home, the % 
missionary, the traveler and the thousands of 
chronic sick who for years have been dosed with 
poisons, with no good result and who are on the 
verge of dispair. When most needed its remedies 
do not fail. If the treatments are properly admin- 
istered they can be relied on every time. 

The general knowledge this book imparts and the 
useful instruction it gives for the preservation and 
restoration of health, comfort, happiness and beauty 
is worth more to any family or individual than all 
the strong drastic medicines in the world. Leaving: 
out of view the consideration that this will enable 
the readers of this book to dispense, in a great 
measure with costly services and the nauseous drugs 
of the apothecary. 

The Osteopathic Treatment which has recently 
come into use and won its way to the favorable 
regard of all classes, and which has never before 
been given to the public, I have combined with the 
hygienic remedies which have latterly been so ex- 
tensively employed in the different parts of Europe. 

The Osteopathic and Hygienic Treatments never 
injure, while medicines do permanent harm even 
when they give temporary relief. Medicines are 
poisonous in their nature, that is, they will make the 
well sick, and I believe, that anything that will 
make a w^ell person sick, will only make sick per- 
sons sicker. 



This treatment if given to the well produces no 
symptom of disease. For this reason a mistaken 
diagnosis is not so serious a matter where the Osteo- 
pathic Treatment is given as where strong drugs 
are administered. 

It is not my intention for a person without the 
knowledge of diseases or the human machinery to 
become an Osteopathic physician by the mere read- 
ing of this little work, on the contrary, to be a skill- 
ed Osteopath takes years of stud}- and many years 
of experience. But so many of the treatments are 
so simple that one without the slightest knowledge 
of anatomy or physiology and the most unlearned 
can with a very little common sense apply them suc- 
cessfully. 

Having been situated for several years as to have 
the care of a large number of chronic cases, many of 
whom had tried in vain all remedies which had been 
presented to them by numerous medical advisors, 
but without relief, I have found it necessary to give 
this class of sufferers much careful study and a 
somewhat larger degree of attention than would 
have been required in a different field of practice. 
The result of my observations has been the conclu 
sion that not only the common people but medical 
practitioners also are in general very deficient in 
knowledge on these diseases. This is evidenced in 
the one case by the persistent continuance of habits 
which have in many instances been the sole cause of 
production and perpetuation of their malady; and 
in the other by the fact that patients are rarely in- 



formed of the real cause of the disease, but arc 
treated with remedies which can at most but palli- 
ate the symptoms, doing nothing toward removing 
the cause of the disease and too frequently aggra- 
vating the patient's sufferings in the end. 

I have had, also, abundant reason for being con- 
vinced that there is on the part of all classes, not ex- 
cepting a large share of the average medical prac- 
titioners, a sad deficiency of information on the sub- 
ject of hygienic medicine. The relation of hygiene 
to health, and especially the relation of different 
dietaries to different morbid conditions of the diges- 
tive organs are subjects concerning which there is 
the most lamentable ignorance. I have met numer- 
ous cases in which the disorders required nothing 
more than a change of regimen and habits of life, 
to effect a cure. 

It is the sincere hope of the author that his little 
volume may be of material service to the large class 
of chronic sufferers to enable them to successfully 
pilot their way back to the port of health. 

F. L. M. 

St. Paul, Minn., April 9th, 1900. 



10. 



PRINCIPLES OF HYGIENIC MEDICATION. 

That the system of Hygienic Medication may be 
known to have a basis both scientific and practical, 
I will give a synopsis of its principles: 

1. All healing power is inherent in the living or- 
ganism. 

2. Remedial agents do not act upon the living 
system, but are acted upon by the vital powers. 

3. Disease is a remedial effort — a process of pu- 
rification and reparation; an effort to restore the 
balance between the two great forces of the system 
— the nervous and the muscular forces. 

4. Truly remedial agents are materials and in- 
fluences which have normal relation to the vital or- 
gans, and not drugs and poisons, which are abnor- 
mal and anti-vital. 

5. The True Healing Art consists in supplying 
the system with whatever of Nature's Materia 
Medica it can use under the circumstances, and not 
in the administration of poisons , which it must re- 
sist and expel. 

6. Drug remedies are themselves causes of dis- 
ease — if they cure one disease, it is by producing, a 
drug disease. 

7. Diseases are caused by obstructions, the ob- 
structing material being poisons or impurities of 
some kind. 

8. The Hygienic system removes these obstruc- 
tions, restores proper balance, and leaves the body 
sound. 



11. 

9. Drug medicines add to the causes of obstruc- 
tion, and change acute into chronic disease. 

10. The Hygienic System of Medication adopts 
all the remedial appliances in existence, and rejects 
poisons. 

11. Nature's Materia Medica consists of Earth, 
Air, Water, Sunlight, Manipulations, Kest, Food, 
Drink, Water, Sleep, Clothing, Mental Influences 
and Mechanical or Surgical Appliances. 

OSTEOPATHY. 

Osteopathy is veritably a common sense method 
of healing diseased conditions of the body, either 
structural or functional — without knife or drugs — 
by means of strictly scientific manipulations. It 
makes no demands upon the vitality of the patient, 
but enlists the curative powers contained within 
the body, which readily respond when properly ap- 
pealed to. Its method is purely mechanical and its 
cardinal principles might be classified as: Skeleton 
Adjustment, Glandular Activity, Free Circulation 
of Blood and Co-ordination of Nerve force. 

Osteopathy comes from the Greek word "osteon" 
meaning bone and "pathos" pain. While Osteopathy 
is a new name given to this science by Dr. Still of 
Kirksville, Mo., and is called a new science, it is 
known that manipulation and movements were 
largely practised in ancient China and during the 
period from three to four thousand years before 
Christ it constituted the most valuable part of the 
whole system of the healing art. 



12. 



HYDROPATHY OK WATER CURE. 

Next to air water is the most important thing 
touching human life and health. The water cure 
has cured tens of thousands of sick people in Eu- 
rope and America. Europe has hundreds of water 
cure doctors who cure all curable diseases and often 
after drugs have been tried for years in vain. 

Four fifths of the human body is composed of 
water. Water dissolves our food and carries it 
through the body. It also carries out the waste 
matter through the skin, lungs, kidneys and bowels. 
Eminent authorities claim that it is necessary to 
drink one tumbler full of water to each ten pounds 
of weight, once every twenty-four hours. 

Every curable disease can be cured by hygienic 
medicine, which means by diet, bathing, fresh air, 
Osteopathy, exercise and application of heat and 
cold. 



13. 



ANAEMIA (or Anemia). 

Symptoms — Pale face, weakness, vertigo, insom- 
nia, impaired appetite, impaired digestion and cold 
extremities. 

TREATMENT. 

(1.) Have the patient lying on the side; use the 
arm as a lever (cut 3) and with your fingers pressing 
rather hard close to the spine; begin high up close 
to the vertebra, move the muscles deep upward and 
outward very gently but thoroughly, the entire 
length of the spine. Treat the other side similarly. 

Be very careful not to use the tips of the fingers 
in this treatment as that would cause the patient 
unnecessary pain. Hold the hands as flat as pos- 
sible using the fingers about the first joint. 

Very often tender spots are found along the spine; 
at such places a little additional treatment is indi- 
cated. These tender spots are often a congested 
condition over some nerve centre which controls 
some distant part. 

(2.) Have the patient lying on his back; flex the 
limbs against the chest and rotate the limb from 
side to side quite strongly two or three times (cut 4). 
Extend the limb with a light jerk. 

If this treatment is given properly it will free the 
femoral artery and vein and should be given thor- 
oughly when the patient is suffering with cold feet. 



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(3.) With one hand on each side of the thigh, the 
fingers meeting, begin close to the body and move 
the flesh to the bone from side to side. 

(4,) With the patient on his back, place one hand 
under the chin, the other hand under the back of 
the head ; pull gently and rotate the head from side 
to side. 

(5.) Have the patient on a stool; place your knee 
between the patient's shoulders, hold the patient's 
wrists and raise the arms slowly but strongly high 
above the head, pressing hard with the knee and 
lowering the arms with a backward motion, (cut 
5 ) . The patient should inhale, rilling the lungs to 
their utmost capacity while the arms are raised, ex- 
haling as the arms are lowered. 

(6.) In all cases where the action of the heart 
is toe rapid, place one hand on each side of the neck, 
the fingers almost meeting over the spines of the 
four or five upper cervical vertebrae; press gently 
two or three minutes upon the vaso motor centre. 
( cut 6 ) . A pressure at this point causes the arter- 
ies to relax, thus increasing their caliber and slow- 
ing the action of the heart. 

(7.) Always begin with a very light treatment 
and increase in strength witl^gach treatment until 
a point is reached where it wjoltld be unwise to treat 
with more strength. Th«e,j|perator must use good 
judgment as to how strong! or light a treatment 
should be given to produce the best results. 

The patient should always feel refreshed and re~ 
lieved after each treatment. 



16. 



This treatment should be given every other day. 
Take plenty of sleep and inhale plenty of fresh air. 
Exerciser little each day. Sun baths and quick 
sponge baths should be taken daily. 

Bat plenty of fruit, whole wheat bread, grains 
and vegetables. Avoid all drugs, pork, sweets, pas- 
try, alcohol, tea, coffee and tobacco. 

APPENDICITIS. 

Symptoms — Begins with a feeling of weight, 
soreness and rapidly developing and severe pain in 
the lower right abdomen. The pain is increased by 
lying on the left side, the right leg is drawn, the ab- 
domen becomes tense, prominent and tender. 
Fever and loss of appetite. 

TREATMENT. 

(1.) Have the patient on his back; begin in the 
lower right abdomen and manipulate gently, but as 
deep as possible the ascending, transverse and de- 
scending colon, endeavoring to move any hardened 
lump of feces towards the rectum. 

(2.) Have the patient on his left side; hold the 
right hand of the patient and assistant holding the 
hip, draw the arm strongly above the head giving 
thorough extention. (cut 7) 

(8.) Have the patient on his left side; manipu- 
late deep and strong but gently over the cecum and 
vermiform appendix, manipulating as thoroughly as 
possible. 



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If this treatment is given correctly, in a careful 
and gentle manner, immediate relief will be experi- 
enced by the patient. 

(4.) Give No. 1 of Anaemia Treatment, (cut 3). 

(5.) Give No. 6 Anaemia Treatment. This 
treatment should be given every day. The first 
treatment will usually give relief. 

Use ice cold wet cloths and sitz baths several 
times a day to allay inflammation. Wash out the 
bowels by several injections of from two to four 
quarts of hot water. Take plenty of fresh air. The 
diet should be very light, gruels from oat-flake, rice 
or barley. To prevent another attack live according 
to "The Rules of Health/' 



ASTHMA. 

Symptoms — The attack comes on suddenly with 
struggles for breath, loud noises and wheezing with 
each breath. The face is flushed and the eyes have 
a terrorized expression. Marked dyspepsia and the 
scanty passage of pale, limped urine. The attack 
may last a few minutes, hours or days. 

Asthma which is called incurable by the medical 
profession can always be benefited and most cases 
can be cured by the following treatments. 

TREATMENT. 

(1.) Have the patient on his back; stand behind 
the patient, with the left hand hold the patient's left 



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wrist, place your right hand under the shoulder 
half way between the shoulder blade and the spine, 
slowly draw the arm upward high above the head, 
pulling steadily and strongly, at the same time 
having the patient take large inhalations, lower the 
arms with the fingers pressing steadily on an angle 
of the ribs. Treat opposite side in a similar man- 
ner. 

(2). Give No. 5 of Anaemia treatment. Give 
this thoroughly. 

(3). Have the patient on his back, with one 
hand on each side of the thorax, press the ribs up- 
ward and forward, holding them in this position 
while the patient fills the lungs. 

(4). Place the hand lightly over the lungs and 
vibrate gently for a couple of minutes over that 
portion which seems to be affected. Particular at- 
tention should be paid to vibration in all lung trou- 
bles. When properly administered it quickens, 
stimulates, strengthens and assists very materially 
in reducing congestion and inflammation and is 
beneficial in many cases. Vibration should be ap- 
plied with a loose wrist joint, using no greater pres- 
sure than the weight of the hand. 

All coughs, colds on the lungs, pleurisy and short, 
difficult breathing respond quickly to the Asthma 
cure. All those suffering from Asthma should 
avoid meat, greasy food, tobacco and stimulants. 
Eat plenty of fruit; have plenty of fresh air day 
and night; take a sponge bath daily. The hot sitz 
bath with hot cloth to the chest and cold along the 
spine is very beneficial. 



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BAD HEARING. 

Symptoms — A lack or deficiency in the sense of 
hearing. 

TREATMENT. 

(1). Have the patient on his back; place one 
hand under the chin and the other under the back of 
the head, pull gently and rotate the head in all di- 
rections. Try to stretch all the muscles of the neck. 

(2). Pull slowly on the head until the body 
moves. 

(3). Stand behind the patient and with the fin- 
gers nearly meeting on the back of the patient's 
neck press hard with the fingers upward and out- 
ward, manipulate the entire length of the neck in 
this manner. 

(1). Manipulate the muscles thoroughly and 
deep in the front of the neck, place the hand under 
the chin, drawing the neck backward; work as 
deeply as possible under the jaw. 

(5). Manipulate as deep and thorough as pos- 
sible all the muscles around the ear. 

(6). With the index finger work as deeply into 
the ear as possible without giving pain. Move the 
muscles in all directions. 

(7). Pull gently on the lobule with the thumb 
and finger. 

All diseases of the ear are greatly benefited and 
many cured. The usual time required to cure dif- 
ficult cases is from one to three months. 



22. 



The cure is entirely affected through the circu- 
lation, consequently the above treatment is indi- 
cated in all cases. Prof. Kirk, of Edinburg, has 
cured a great number of cases by applying a bag of 
hot water to the back of the head for an hour each 
day. Doing this for a week, then omitting it a 
Aveek, then again for a week, etc. Some have been 
cured of total deafness by applying hot wet cloths 
to the back of the head for half an hour each day. 
Injections of warm Avater into the ear, Avashing out 
hardened AA T ax, has been found beneficial to some. 

BED-WETTING— ENURESIS. 

Symptoms — Im T oluntary discharge of the urine. 

TREATMENT. 

(1). Children who have no control over their 
urine can be cured with a very few treatments by 
pressing on the sacrum close to the last lumbar A^er- 
tebrae and raising the limbs as high as the patient 
can stand Avithout pain. Adults can also be cured 
with about four Aveeks of the above treatment. 
Avoid drinking for three or four hours before re- 
tiring, empty the bladder regularly and especially 
before retiring. 



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IMPURE BLOOD. 

Give the same treatment as for Anaemia. 

If you have impure blood you need pure food, 
pure water and pure air ; these are the necessaries. 
Avoid drugs or patent medicines. 

As the greater part of human blood is water, it 
is necessary to drink a great deal of it. Drink 
plenty of pure water and it will do you more good 
than all the drugs in the world. 

BLOODY FLUX OR ACUTE DYSENTERY. 

Symptoms — Diarrhea, nausea, slight feYer with 
colicky pains about the navel, also burning pains in 
the rectum. Evacuation contains blood and pus. 
Headache and weakness. 

TREATMENT. 

(1). Have the patient on his back, stand beside 
the bed and put both hands under him on each side 
of the spine about the lumbar vertebrae, raise the 
patient several inches off the bed, his weight rest- 
ing on the ends of the fingers. Do this several times. 

(2) . Have the patient on a stool, and place your 
knee on his back about the lumbar vertebrae, draw 
the patient backward as far as he can stand, hold a 
moment. Repeat this several times. (Cut 8.) 

(3). Give No. 6 Anaemia treatment to allay 
fever. 



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(4) Give No. 1 Anaemia treatment. 

This treatment should be given every three or 
four hours, and if given correctly the results will 
be remarkable. The writer has cured some bad 
cases by a few treatments and often after the med- 
ical doctors had failed to give any relief. The pa- 
tient should rest quietly in bed. Give large injec- 
tions of either hot or cold water. Apoly hot wet 
cloths or cold cloths to the abdomen. 

It is best to fast for a day or two, use a limited 
diet of fruits, gruels and toasted brown bread. 

BRONCHITIS. 

Symptoms Pain in the chest, cough, dry, then 
loose, chilliness, light fever, acting all over, loss cf 
appetite. 

TREATMENT. 
Give entire Osteopathic treatment for Asthma. 
Eat only two meals a day, avoid all rich foods, 
stimulants and drugs. Inhale plenty of fresh air. 

ACUTE NASAL CATARRH OR COLD IN THE 
HEAD. 
Symptoms — Sneezing, a watery discharge from 
the nose, chilliness, and a little fever. Scabs of 
dried mucus may form inside the nostrils. 



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TBEATMENT. 

(1). Give a thorough neck treatment. See the 
first four manipulations for bad hearing. 

(2). Move the muscles around the eyes, and 
beginning in the corner of the eyes, move the 
muscles upward and downward with hard pressure 
the entire length of the nose. 

(3). Manipulate all the muscles of the head 
thoroughly. 

(4). Give No. 6 of Anaemia treatment. 

In acute cases this treatment should be given 
every twelve to twenty-four hours ; in chronic cases 
every other day is sufficient. A hot sitz bath and hot 
lemonade with a hot foot bath, just before retiring 
is excellent in acute cases. Those suffering from 
catarrh should live, as close as possible, to nature. 
All the treatments and drugs in the world will not 
cure chronic catarrh unless the patient has plenty 
of air, sunlight and water. 

Eat only fruits, grains and fresh vegetables, 
drink frequently of water, and bathe frequently. 
Take an occasional mud bath and also a sun bath. 

COLD FEET. 

(1). Give No. 2 and No. 3 of Anaemia treat- 
ment. 

(2). Manipulate thoroughly the feet and limbs, 
rub the soles of the feet vigorously. 

Treat every day. Exercise a couple of hours 
each day. Bathe the feet in cold water for two 
minutes, then rub them dry. 



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CONSTIPATION OR COSTIVENESS. 
Symptoms — Sluggish action of the bowels, the 
stool is small and hard, liver and kidneys inactive, 
headache and dizziness. 

TREATMENT. 

( 1 ) . Give No. 1 of Anaemia treatment and man- 
ipulate thoroughly about the small of the back. 

(2). Give No. 1 Asthma treatment. 

(3). Give No. 1 Appendicitis treatment. 

( 4 ) . Manipulate over and around the liver, with 
one hand on the ribs, the other over the liver ; press 
quite strongly. Work as deeply as possible with 
the fingers over the liver, under the ribs and raise 
them gently. 

(5). Vibrate over the liver. See No. 4 Asthma 
treatment. 

(6). Give No. 4 Anaemia treatment. Be care- 
ful to pull the head strongly and turn from right 
to left; also manipulate the muscles in front and 
side of the neck thoroughly. 

( 7 ) . Have the patient on his back ; pound with 
the fists for a couple of minutes on the sacrum. The 
treatment is also good in cases of piles or hemorr- 
hoids. See illustration No. 11. 

This treatment should be given every other day 
and a cure of the worst form of constipation can be 
affected in from one to six weeks. Eat plenty of 
fruits and coarse grains. Take plenty of exercise 
every day. 



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CONSUMPTION OF THE LUNGS, OR 
TUBERCULOSIS. 

Symptoms — Generally begins with dyspepsia 
and cold hands and feet; failure of nutrition and 
enfeebled circulation are often noticed early. Loss 
of appetite, shortness of breath, pain in the chest 
and shoulders, night sweats, hacking cough, bleed- 
ing from the lungs of small quantities at intervals, 
expectoration of mucus, becoming frothv and then 
purulent, red spots on the cheeks, feverishness in 
evening and easily fatigued. In women derange- 
ment or suppression of mentrual functions. 

TREATMENT. 

(1). Give No. 1 Anaemia treatment. 

(2). Give No. 1 Asthma treatment. 

(3). Give No. 4 Asthma treatment. 

(4). Give No. 5 Anaemia treatment. 

(5). I have found it to good advantage to vib- 
rate over the spleen. 

Light cases of lung trouble can be cured in two 
weeks by one treatment every day or every other 
day. In some very stubborn cases from four weeks 
to two months, providing tuberculosis has not set 
in. Take daily a sponge bath. The diet should bo 
mainly of fruits and grains. Take deep inhalations 
in the open air every hour during the day. Be 
careful to breath through the nose, live in the open 
air as much as possible. Give up all bad habits and, 
tobacco, alcohol, tea, coffee, rich foods, pastry, con- 
diments, fried foods and drugs. Pains in the chest 



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are almost instantly relieved by hot wet cloths be- 
tween the shoulders, and cold wet cloths over the 
lungs; change both cloths every five minutes. 

DIFFICULT BREATHING. 

This occurs in a large number of diseases. Give 
the treatment same as for Asthma. Let the patient 
rest in an easy position and aptij^ hot wet cloths 
to the chest. Sponge the body once a day with hot 
water. Be careful as to diet, giving no solid food. 

DIPHTHERIA. 

Symptoms — These in many respects are variable 
and vary in intensity in different cases. The prom- 
inent symptoms being often disproportionate to the 
gravity of the attack. The invasion may be mild, 
with rigors, succeeded by moderate fever, headache, 
languor, loss of appetite, stiffness of the neck, ten- 
derness about the angles of the jaw, or slight sore- 
ness of the throat. In other cases the invasion is 
more abrupt and severe, with chilliness, followed 
by great febrile reaction; 103 to 105° F; pain in 
the ear, aching of the limbs, loss of strength, pain- 
ful deglutition and swelling of the neck, compelling 
the patient to take to the bed from the onset. The 
urine is scanty, high colored and contains albumen. 
Grayish white false membrane in the throat; there 
may be white patches in the throat without Croup 
or Diphtheria. 






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TREATMENT. 

(1). Give No. 4 Anaemia treatment. 

(2). Move all the muscles of the neck thor- 
oughly from side to side. 

(3). Manipulate the muscles in the patient's 
mouth with one finger, this loosens the membrane 
and it is likely to be expelled. 

(4). Give No. 1 Asthma treatment. 

(5). Have the patient on his back, put your 
arms around the patient, your fingers almost meet- 
ing on the spine below the last rib, press Avith the 
fingers on each side of the spine and raise the pa- 
tient's body till only the hips and shoulders rest on 
the bed, do this two or three times, moving the 
hands up a couple of inches ; this will stop all vomit- 
ing. 

(6). Give No. 6 Anaemia treatment. This will 
slow the action of the heart. Diphtheria in its 
worst form yields readily to the above treatment, 
sometimes a complete cure is affected in a few 
days. 

Treatment should be given every six hours and 
No. 6 may be given oftener as it always relieves. 

Apply ice cold cloths or ice in a rag to the throat. 
Every half hour apply hot wet cloths to the throat 
for ten minutes. Hold ice far back in the mouth. 
Give daily a hot sitz bath or a hot sponge bath. Do 
not give any food until after the crisis. Some of 
the most renowned physicians in the United States 
say that anti-toxine treatment is a complete fail- 
ure. 



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DYSMENORRHEA, OR PAINFUL MENSTRUA- 
TION. 

Symptoms — Usually from twenty-four to forty- 
eight hours before the discharge makes its appear- 
ance there will be pains in the back and loins and 
lower part of the abdomen, sometimes extending; 
down the thighs; this pain varies in character and 
duration in different persons and forms of this dis- 
ease. Some suffer but a few hours before relieved 
by the discharge and others suffer for several days: 
while the discharge takes place. Some cases are 
accompanied by constipation, nausea and sensi- 
tiveness of the stomach with great irritability of 
mind, fainting, headache and neuralgia may like- 
wise occur. 

TREATMENT. 

(1). Have the patient lying on her face, work 
on each side of the spine with the thumbs from the 
waist down, moving the muscles upward and out- 
ward. 

(2). Give No. 2 Anaemia treatment. Give this 
thoroughly. 

(3). Have the patient on her back, holding 
firmly to the head of the table or couch ; give gentle 
extension of the spine by pulling on her feet. 

(4). Vibrate lightly over the uterus for a min- 
ute or so. See No. 4 Asthma treatment. 



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(5). It is very often advisable in cases of sup- 
pressed menstruation or dysmenorrhea to give a 
portion or all of the treatment for Anaemia in ad- 
dition to the above. 

There is no treatment known that attains the 
success in the diseases of women as the Osteopathic 
treatment. It frees and equalizes the circulation 
and nerve wave to the sexual organs. There is liard- 
Iv any female disease which does not respond 
readily to the Osteopathic treatment, except dis 
eases which are the direct result of tuberculosis. 

Take a hot sitz bath and drink hot water. Rest in 
bed and eat little. Avoid eating rich foods, pastry, 
tea coffee and all drugs. Read the Rules of Health 
carefully, especially rule No. 3. In my experience 
I have met with great success in the treatment of 
diseases of women and give advice by mail. 

DYSPEPSIA OR INDIGESTION. 

Symptoms — Perverted appetite, difficult diges- 
tion, heart burn, flatulency, regurgitation or vomit- 
ing of portions of partly digested food or acrid fluid, 
pain or soreness at the pit of the stomach during 
digestion, tongue either clean or broad, flabby and 
pale, bowels constipated, drowsiness after meals, 
with wakefulness at night. Defective memory, 
headache, flashes of heat and palpitation of the 
heart. 



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TREATMENT. 

(1). Give No. 1 Anaemia treatment. Tender 
spots will usually be found on the spine between the 
shoulder blades, they will disappear after a few 
treatments, Avhen the patient will begin to recover. 

(2). In all cases where constipation exists give 
the Constipation treatment or as much of it as is 
thought necessary. 

(3). Give No. 5 Anaemia treatment. In giving 
this treatment press hard with the knee between the 
shoulder blades as the arms are lowered. 

(4). Give No. 4 Anaemia treatment. Also 
manipulate in the front of the neck thoroughly. 

(5). Vibrate lightly over the stomach for a 
minute. See No. 4 Asthma treatment. 

Avoid SAveets, fats, starchy foods, tobacco, al- 
cohol, tea and coffee. Eat largely of fruits and 
grains, sip one-half glass of water every hour and 
especially one-half hour before meals. This stim- 
ulates the circulation and increases the juices of 
the stomach. Read carefully the Rules of Health, 
and especially rules 2 and 7. 

SIMPLE FEVER. 

Symptoms — Onset sudden, with abrupt feeling 
of lassitude, followed by a decided chill or dullness, 
a sudden or rapid rise of temperature, quick tense 
pulse, headache, dry skin, great thirst, coated 
tongue, costive bowels and scanty high colored 



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urine. Cases clue to errors in diet are accompanied 
by nausea and vomiting. 

TREATMENT. 

( 1 ) . Give No. 1 Bad Hearing treatment. 

(2). Give No. 4 Bad Hearing treatment. 

(3). In cases of diarrhea give the diarrhea 
treatment. 

(4). Vibrate for a minute over the abdomen. 
See Asthma treatment No. 4. 

(5). Give No. 6 Anaemia treatment. This 
treatment should be given every three to six hours. 

As there are a large variety of fevers and no two 
cases are exactly alike, it is therefore unnecessary 
to spend the time of illustrating each variety. The 
Osteopathic treatment and also all natural treat- 
ments are practically the same in all cases of fever. 
It therefore depends largely upon the good judg- 
ment of the operator in applying the correct treat- 
ment. 

(6). I have found it very beneficial in a large 
number of cases to give No. 2 and No. 3 Anaemia 
treatments ; also rub the soles of the feet vigorously. 
This has a wonderful effect in drawing the blood 
to the extremities and also cooling the patient. 

You may assist in cooling the fever by sponging 
with cool water the whole body, except the arms 
and legs, or by wrapping a cool, wet sheet around 
the body, keeping the feet warm with hot irons ; put 



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cold rags on the head or pour cold water on the 
head held over the side of the bed or by keeping 
cold Avet cloths on the bowels and chest. 

During fever there is little or no digestive fluid 
in the stomach. Allow but one light meal a day 
or none for a day or two. Gruels of grains, milk, 
vegetable soup, grapes, oranges, lemons and cooked 
apples constitute the best diet. Be sure to have 
plenty of fresh air in the room either in winter or 
summer; also have plenty of sunshine in the room. 
If the bowels do not move every day, wash out 
by injecting a couple of quarts of tepid water. 

GASTRITIS. 
See Dyspepsia treatment. 

HEADACHE. 

All headaches not caused by fevers, the stomach, 
or the uterus, can be cured almost instantly by giv- 
ing the proper Osteopathic treatment. 

( 1 ) . Place one hand on the forehead, the other 
on the back of the head and press for several min- 
utes quite hard. 

( 2 ) . Give No. 6 Anaemia treatment. 

(3). Give No. 1 Bad Hearing treatment. 

( 4 ) . Give No. 4 Bad Hearing treatment. 

( 5 ) . Have the patient on a stool ; stand behind 
the patient with one hand on each side of the fore- 
head, stroke backward and downward. 



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(6). With the thumb and fingers of the right 
hand on either side of the patient's neck and the 
left hand on his forehead tilt backward gently, at 
the same time lift the right hand. Rotate the head. 
As headaches are usually caused by constipation, 
overloaded stomach, lack of bathing, debility, brain 
troubles, rheumatism, poor ventilation, alcohol, 
etc., it is always well to remove the cause if pos- 
sible, and also to give the other treatments as in- 
dicated from the cause. 

Give the patient a hot foot bath, and put cold 
wet cloths on the head. When one is subject to 
headache they should avoid all grease, fried foods 
and drugs; also alcohol, tea, coffee and tobacco. 
Read the Rules of Health. 

INFLAMMATION OF THE BOWELS, OR 
ENTERITIS. 

Symptoms — Fever, colicy pains about the um- 
bilicus, abdomen is tender, bowels are loose, stools 
contain but little fecal matter, are yellow or green- 
ish yellow in color. If the stools are numerous they 
become whitish and watery, no blood in stools. 

(1). Give No. 1 of the Appendicitis treatment 
only in the reversed order; that is, to begin in the 
lower left-hand corner of the abdomen. Knead the 
bowels carefully up the descending colon, across 
the transverse colon and down the ascending col- 
on. This checks the peristaltic action of the bowels 
and the diarrhea. 



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(2). Give No. 1 Bloody Flux treatment. 

(3). Give No. 1 The Asthma treatment. 

Exercising great care to press with the fingers 
hard between the shoulder blades as the arms are 
lowered. 

(4). If the muscles in the lower part of the 
spine are in a tender or sensitive condition, treat 
that part of the spine. See Anaemia treatment, 
No. 1. 

(5). If fever exists hold the vaso motor for a 
short time. See No. 6 Anaemia treatment. This 
treatment should be given very carefully and gently 
once each day. If given correctly relief will imme- 
diately ensue. 

Give a very light diet of fruits and grains. A hot 
sitz bath and also large injections of hot water 
daily; hot wet cloths on the abdomen will relieve. 

INFLUENZA, OB LA GBIPPE. 

Symptoms — Fever, debility, aching of the whole 
body, soreness in the back and limbs, stiffness of 
neck, headache over the eyes, nose, and eyes wa- 
tery, and loss of appetite. 

TBEATMENT. 
Give the same treatment as for fever. When nose 
and eyes are very watery give part of the treatment 
for Sore Eyes. Follow the same hygienic treat- 
ment as for fever. 



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GONORRHEA, SYPHILIS, MASTURBATION, 
IMPOTENCE, GLEET. 

and all diseases of men are successfully treated by 
the author of this book. See ad. in the back of this 
book. 

KIDNEY DISEASES. 

I have had great success in the treatment of all 
kidney and bladder troubles, but as the diagnosis 
of kidney diseases depends almost wholly upon the 
analysis of the urine, it is therefore impracticable to 
give the treatment for each disease. But I would 
recommend the treatment as laid down for Anae- 
mia. Also vibrate over the kidneys. 

In all cases of kidney trouble it is well to live on. 
a diet of fruits, grains and vegetables. Avoid 
meat, tea, coffee, alcohol, tobacco and drugs. Hot 
sitz baths and hot wet cloths are good for pain 
in the kidneys or bladder. 

TORPID LIVER. 

Symptoms — Loss of appetite, slight fever, head- 
ache, furred tongue, nausea, bitter taste and usu- 
ally constipated. 

TREATMENT. 

( 1 ) . Give No. 1 Anaemia treatment thoroughly. 
(2). Give thorough extension of the spine. 
See No. 3 Dysmenorrhea treatment. 
( 3 ) . Give No. 4 Anaemia treatment. 



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( 4 ) . In all cases where constipation exists give 
all or part of the constipation treatment. 

(5). Give No. 2 Anaemia treatment. 

(6). Press and manipulate around the liver. 

( 7 ) . Vibrate over the liver. See No. 4 Asthma 
treatment. 

Give all of this treatment in a careful and thor- 
ough manner once each day. 

Wear a wet towel around the waist at night. 
Avoid fats, sweets, fried foods, pastry, tea and cof- 
fee, tobacco, alcohol and eat meat sparingly. Fol- 
low closely the Rules of Health. 

LUMBAGO. 
Symtoms — Rheumatic pains in the loins usually 
shooting upward, increased by muscular exercise, 
may be chronic or acute. 

TREATMENT. 

(1). Give No. 2 Anaemia treatment, 

(2). Give No. 3 Anaemia treatment. 

(3). Give No. 1 Dysmenorrhea treatment. 

(4). Have the patient lying on his side; with 
one hand manipulate the muscles of the lumbar 
vertebrae, pressing rather hard at the same time 
with the other hand, raise the limb and press it 
from you. ( See cut 9. ) No known diseases yield as 
readily to Osteopathic treatment as Lumbago and 
Sciatica. 



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I have cured numerous acute cases with one or 
two treatments, and many chronic cases of many 
years' standing* in from two to six weeks' time. 
And if this treatment is given correctly it will he 
unnecessary to give anv other treatment. 

Hot sitz baths and hot wet cloths generally give 
relief. Wearing a hot wet cloth about the small 
of the back is very beneficial. Drugs do no good 
in either of these diseases. Live according to the 
Eules of Health. 

NEURASTHENIA, OK NERVOUS PROSTRA- 
TION. 

Symptoms — Nervousness, cold hands and feet, 
fullness in the head with flushes of heat, headache, 
dizziness, melancholy; in the male there are genito 
urinary disorders, with pains in the back; in the 
female, painful menstruation, ovarian irritation 
and irritable uterus. 

TREATMENT. 

(1). Give No. 1 Anaemia treatment. 

(2). Give No. 1 Bad Hearing treatment. 

(3). Give No. 4 Bad Hearing treatment. 

This treatment is beneficial and is usually suffi- 
cient, but if any other complication exists apply 
whatever other treatment is necessary. 

Applying the treatment as laid down for Anae- 
mia is very good. Avoid alcohol, tobacco, tea, cof- 
fee, condiments, sexual excesses, overwork, irregu- 



u 

lar habits and drugs. A sponge bath daily and a 
couple of hours of exercise in the fresh air. Take a 
good hot bath once a week. Follow the Rules of 
Health. See rule 9. 

NEURALGIA. 

( Pain in the Course of a Nerve. ) 
Symptoms — Darting, burning pain in the course 
of an affected nerve which ceases at times. The 
skin usually becomes insensible; pain may last for 
a few minutes or for days. 

TREATMENT. 

As Neuralgia' may -manifest itself in many parts 
of the body, no definite treatment can be laid down. 
If the disease is in the face thorough manipulation 
of the face and neck should be given. See Bad 
Hearing treatment. If in the limb as sciatica man- 
ipulate thoroughly that limb. See Lumbago treat- 
ment. 

I have permanently cured bad cases of neuralgia 
of years standing with five or six treatments. 
Treat every day. Hot wet cloths or cold wet 
cloths or ice will relieve the pain. Apply along the 
spine cloths wrung out of cold water; change every 
few minutes. For a Dermanent cure the patient's 
health must be improved. Sun baths and exercise 
with plenty of fresh air is necessary. 



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PLEURISY. 

Symptoms — Pain or stitch in the side, difficult 
breathing, fever and cough, pain is usually on a 
level with the nipple. 

TREATMENT. 

Give the entire treatment as laid down for Asth- 
ma. In acute cases of pleurisy I have found it un- 
necessary to give all of the Asthma treatment. In- 
stant relief is afforded after giving No. 2 of the 
Asthma treatment if given in a thorough and gentle 
manner. The treatment should be given once a day. 
Hot wet cloths applied to the pain generally re- 
lieve, but if this does not suffice, apply cold wet 
cloths all over the chest. 

PARALYSIS OR PALSY. 

Under the general term of paralysis are classed 
various conditions which involve inability, partial 
or complete, to control various muscles of the body. 
May be caused by nerve diseases, muscular strains, 
excesses, poisoning, scarlet fever, diphtheria, men- 
ingitis, etc. ; may also be the result of apoplexy. 
When one entire side of the body from the head 
downward, is affected, it is called hemiplegia. If 
the lower half of the body be attacked it is called 
paraplegia, and when confined to a limb or set of 
muscles it is called paralysis. 

Palsy usually comes on with a sudden and inline- 



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diate loss of motion and sensibility of the parts, 
sometimes preceded by a numbness, coldness and 
paleness and sometimes b}^ slight convulsive twitch- 
ings. Occasionally the disease advances more 
slowly, a finger, hand, arm or the muscles of the 
tongue, of the mouth or of the eyelid being first 
affected. 

TKEATMENT. 

In all cases of paralysis I give practically the 
same Osteopathic treatment as in acute muscular 
rheumatism, being very careful to manipulate the 
spinal column on both sides thoroughly. (Anaemia 
treatment No. 1, illustration No. 3) . Give an exten- 
sion of the spine, by a strong, steady pull on the 
patient's feet with an assistant holding the shoul- 
ders, also manipulate thoroughly the affected parts. 
If the paralysis is in the lower extremities Anae- 
mia treatment No. 2 (illustration No. 4) must be 
given thoroughly. This stretches the great sciatic, 
one of the largest nerves in the body, which supplies 
the larger part of the limb. Anions the many cases 
of paralysis I have successfully treated, I might 
mention a little boy of St. Paul, Minn. Nine 
months ago he and his mother made a visit to New 
York; he was then a bright, active child of three 
years. In NeAV York he Avas taken sick with fever 
and spinal meningitis, which left his limbs paral- 
ysed. They gradually wasted away until there was 
little left but the skin and bones. He Avas carried 






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from one specialist to another while in New York, 
but they all said nothing could be done for the poor 
little fellow. The mother brought her child home, 
still hoping that she would find some one who could 
help him. They consulted their family physician, 
who recommended several nerve specialists in St. 
Paul, but after each examination they all agreed 
that nothing could be done to make the child walk. 

He was brought to me two months ago. His 
limbs are developed to normal size and he can walk. 

Persons suffering from paralysis should live 
strictly according to the Kules of Health. Take 
plenty of fresh air ; bathe regularly ; avoid tobacco, 
alcohol and drugs. 

CROUPOUS PNEUMONIA OR LUNG FEVER. 

Symptoms — Chills, fever, deep-seated, dull pain 
beneath the breast bone or shoulder blade, great 
feeling of illness, short breath, frequent short 
cough, skin is hot, expectoration of viscid matter 
of a green, yellow or pale color, sometimes tinged 
with blood which forms such tenacious masses that 
they cling to the bottom of the vessel containing 
them. 

TREATMENT. 

(1). Give No. 1 Anaemia treatment. 
(2). Give No. 1 Bad Hearing treatment. 
(3). Give No. 1 Asthma treatment. 
( 4 ) . Vibrate over the lungs. See No. 4 Asthma 
treatment. 



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(5). Give No. 6 Anaemia treatment to reduce 
the fever. This treatment will give immediate re- 
lief and a speedy cure if the case has not gone too 
far. 

Give a sponge bath daily, cold, wet half oack 
around the chest, while the fever is high, but sitz 
bath if the feet and legs are cold. See that the pa- 
tient has plenty of fresh air. Give a tea cup of 
milk or gruel every two or three hours ; give plenty 
of water to drink. 

CATARRHAL PNEUMONIA. 

(Or Inflammation of the Lungs, Beginning With 
the Bronchi.) 
Symptoms — Just the same as in Croupous Pneu- 
monia, only that the disease is in spots, hence it 
is called Lobular Pneumonia. 

TREATMENT. 

Give the same treatment as for Croupous Pneu- 
monia. 

ACUTE ARTICULAR RHEUMATISM. 

Symptoms — Begins suddenly, usually at night, 
with a chill or chilliness, pain and stiffness in the 
joints, loss of appetite, followed by fever, the tem- 
perature soon reaching 102 F to 104° F; in rare 
cases 108 F to 110° F, the pulse seldom exceeding 
95, great thirst, profuse acid sweats and scanty 
high colored acid urine, sometimes showing traces 
of albumen, bowels constipated. 



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Sleep is prevented by the pain and profuse pers- 
piration ; the pain is aggravated by motion or pres- 
sure, the swelling is most armarent in those joints; 
not covered with muscle : knee, wrist, elbow, ankle., 
hand and feet. 

TKEATMENT. 

(1). If the disease is located in the lower 
extremity give No. 2 Anaemia treatment. 

(2). Give No. 3 Anaemia treatment. 

(3). Stretch the limb gently by pulling on the 
foot. 

(4). Give No. 1 Anaemia treatment, working 
principally on the lower part of the spine. As all 
the joints will be very painful, great care must be 
taken to give this treatment in a very gentle man- 
ner. Treatment should be given every other day. 

(1). If the disease is located in the upper 
extremity, give No. 1 of the Anaemia treatment, 
manipulating principally on the upper part of the 
spine. 

(2). Give No. 5 Anaemia treatment. 

(3). Have one hand on the patient's shoulder,. 
with the other hold the patient's elbow, Dressing 
hard Avith both hands, move the arm upward, for- 
ward and around. ( See cut 10 ) . 

(4). With one hand hold the patient's wrist 
and with the other move the muscles from right to* 
left and from left to rieht the whole length of the- 
arm. 



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(5). With one hand on the patient's shoulder, 
the other on the wrist, stretch the arm. 

When Rheumatism is in any other part of the 
body except the upper or lower extremities, it is 
Avell to give a thorough treatment, manipulating 
principally on the spinal column, also stretch the 
neck and extremities. 

Take a hot sitz bath one day and a hot air or sun 
bath the next day. If the bowels do not move wash 
the bowels out every other dav with an injection of 
hot water. Eat plentv of fruits and grain. Avoid 
meat, alcohol, tea, coffee, rich foods and drugs. 

Among many of the remarkable cures I have 
made is that of a prominent Minneapolis newspa- 
per man, whom I cured in a few treatments of 
rheumatism in the feet. He was unable to walk 
or put on his shoes. 

CHRONIC ARTICULAR RHEUMATISM. 

Symptoms — Pain and stiffness in one or more 
of the joints, most frequently in a shoulder and 
knee. This disease very often follows the acute 
form. In time the affected limb looses its power of 
motion, and lameness results. The pain is more or 
less constant, but is worse in damp weather, rarely 
any swelling or elevation of temperature. 

TREATMENT. 

Give same treatment as for acute articular rheu- 
matism, only in this form one treatment every other 



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day is sufficient. Great care must be taken to man- 
ipulate thoroughly all around the affected joints. 

MUSCULAR RHEUMATISM. 

Symptoms — This disease involves the muscles 
instead of the joints. Its onset is sudden, usually 
first noticed on attempting to rise in the morning. 
The first attack is generally acute; in the chronic 
form it returns frequently and finally becomes con- 
stant and aggravated when the weather is damn. 
The suffering may be severe and constant or only 
on motion. Fever is absent. 

TREATMENT. 

In all forms of rheumatism the treatment is prac- 
tically the same as for acute muscular rheumatism. 
When the disease is acute it is best to treat about 
once everv twenty-four hours; when chronic one 
treatment every other day is sufficient. See rule 15 
of the Rules of Health. 

SCIATICA. 

(Pain Following the Course of the Sciatic Nerve.) 
Symptoms — Sciatica usually follows an attack 
of Lumbago, the pain becomes fixed in the sciatic 
nerve. The pain is sharp, tearing, shooting or lan- 
cinating in character, increased upon motion, shoot- 
ing along the course of the nerve into the hip, inner 
side of the thigh, calf of the leg, ankle and heel, at 



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one or all of these points, paroxynis lasting from a 
few hours to twenty-four hours or longer. 

TREATMENT. 

Give the Lumbago treatment, being careful to 
give Nos. 2 and 3 Anaemia treatment in a thorough 
and careful manner. 

SORE EYES OR CONJUNCTIVITIS. 
Symptoms — Eyelids stuck together on awaken- 
ing, heavy feeling, itching and burning sensation. 

TREATMENT. 

( 1 ) . Give Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4 of the Bad Hearing 
treatment, 

(2). Manipulate thoroughly all the muscles 
around the eye. 

(3). With one finger manipulate thoroughly, 
but gently, under the edge of the bone surrounding 
the eye. Be careful not to press on the eyeball. 

(4). Vibrate over the eye with two fingers 
lightly. See No. 4 Asthma treatment. This treat- 
ment should be given every day. 

The above treatment should be given for in- 
flammation of the eyes, granulated eyelids, weak 
eyes, near sightedness, etc. Be sure to improve the 
general health by following the rules laid down 
in this book. Rest the eyes and shade them from 
the light. Apply cold wet cloths, sponge them with 
hot water twice a day. If only one eye is dis- 
eased protect the other by using a different towel. 



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SOKE THKOAT OE ACUTE PHARYNGITIS. 

Symptoms — Stiffness of the neck, enlargement 
of the cervical glands, hoarseness, chilliness and 
fever; often white spots on the tonsils. 

TREATMENT. 

( 1 ) . Give Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4 Bad Hearing treat- 
ment. 

(2). Give No. 1 Asthma treatment. 

(3). Vibrate over the larynx. See No. 4 Asth- 
ma treatment. Give this thoroughly, but gently, 
every day. 

Take a hot foot bath on going to bed and apply 
a cold wet cloth on the throat over night. 

TONSILLITIS OR QUINSY. 

Symptoms — Usually one tonsil is affected, some- 
times both, onset more or less sudden, rise in tem- 
perature, headache, thirst, pain and swelling at the 
angle of the jaw, with a constant desire to clear 
the throat, difficult and painful deglutition from 
the enlarged tonsils, almost closing the fauces, 
when the respiration is more or less impeded, some- 
times earache and deafness. 

TREATMENT. 

(1). Give No. 1 Anaemia treatment, 
(2). Give Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4 Bad Hearing treat- 
ment. 



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(3). Manipulate the neck thoroughly, but gent- 
ly, in the region of the tonsils around the angle of 
the jaw. 

(4). When fever exists give No. 6 Anaemia 
treatment. This treatment should be given every 
day. Give a hot foot bath and applv cold wet 
cloths to the throat. Allow only a simple diet of 
fruits, grains and vegetables. Have plenty of fresh 
air and sunlight. 

TONSILS— ENLARGED. 

Symptoms — Difficult swallowing, enlargement of 
the tonsils, interference with swallowing, talking 
and breathing, sometimes hardness of hearing. 

TREATMENT. 
Treat the same as for tonsillitis. Put a cold cloth 
on the throat over night and for two hours during 
the day use hot and cold cloths ; hot cloths for half 
an hour, then cold cloths for half an hour ; change 
both hot and cold cloths every five minutes. Im- 
prove the general health by living according to the 
Rules of Health. 

VERTIGO OR DIZZINESS. 

Symptoms — The attack of giddiness comes on 
suddenly, indistinct vision and slight confusion of 
thoughts. In all varieties of vertigo the sensation 
of objects moving around the patient, or the patient 
moving around objects which remain stationary is 



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present in some degree. There is no loss of con- 
sciousness. The ordinary symptoms of vertigo be- 
ing preceded by headache, nausea, specks before the 
eyes, and pain in the eveballs. 

TREATMENT. 

When this disease is associated with stomach 
troubles or if it is caused by a nervous disorder. T 
have found it advisable to give the entire treatment 
for Anaemia omitting No. 6. 

When the trouble results from the disease of the 
semicircular canals and cocklea, give Nos. 1, 2, 3 
and 4 of the Bad Hearing treatment; also No. 5 
Anaemia treatment. Treat every other day. 

As this disease is often caused by too much or too 
little blood in the brain, loss of sleep, sexual ex- 
cesses, etc., one should live on a plain and simple 
diet and follow the Rules of Health. 

AMENORRHEA OR SUPPRESSED MEN- 
STRUATION. 

Symptoms — If caused by phthesis, there is ema- 
ciation, cough, and night sweats; when caused by 
anaemia, there is dyspnea and palpitation on exer- 
tion, loss of appetite, headache, constipation, hys 
teria and palor. 

TREATMENT. 

(1) Give no. 1 Dysmenorrhea treatment. 

(2) Have the patient on her face and with both 



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hands on the same side of the spine, move the mus- 
cles upward and outward very carefully and deep 
the entire length of the spine, working more thor- 
oughly the lower part, 

(3) Give No. 2 Anaemia treatment. 

(4) Give No. 3 Dysmenorrhea treatment. 

( 5 ) Vibrate over the uterus, lightly. See Asth- 
ma Treatment No. 4. 

Very often it is advisable in cases of suppressed 
menstruation or dysmenorrhea to give all or part of 
the treatment for Anaemia in addition to the above. 

At the expected time take a hot sitz bath, also 
drink hot water, apply hot cloths and bricks, rest 
in bed, avoid corsets and drugs. See 3 and 4 of 
the Eules of Health. 

SCANTY MENSTRUATION OR OLIGOMEN- 
ORRHEA. 
Treat the same as for Amenorrhea. 

PROFUSE MENSTRUATION OR MENORR- 
HAGIA. 

Symptoms — Excessive and long menstrual flow. 

TREATMENT. 

(1) Give No. 2 Amenorrhea treatment. 

(2) With the patient on her face press rather 
hard between each vertebrae. Treat every other 
day. 

As this disease is often caused by plethora or de- 



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bility, great attention should be given to the gen- 
eral health. Take plenty of out-door exercise and 
fresh air. Apply cold wet cloths over the lower 
part of the abdomen. Should the menstruation 
last too long, it can be stopped by a cold sitz bath. 
See 3 and 4 of the Eules of Health. 

PLETHORA OR TOO MUCH BLOOD. 

Give the same Osteopathic Treatment as for 
Anaemia. Do not eat more food than is necessary. 
Avoid meat, grease, eggs, alcohol, sugar, milk, nuts, 
tea and coffee. Eat plenty of grains, vegetables, 
sour and acid foods. Exercise for two hours each 
day. Take a couple of hot baths each week, also 
a couple of sun baths. The above treatment is also 
good for obesity. 

SKIN DISEASES. 

All skin diseases yield readily to the Osteopathic 
Treatment and are cured in a short time by hygienic 
living. 

TREATMENT. 

Manipulate the affected parts thoroughly. Take 
daily a sponge bath also a sun bath and exercise 
according to strength. Live according to the Rules 
of Health. 

WEAK STOMACH. 
All stomach troubles not caused by what we eat 



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or how we eat and drink are caused by a lack of 
nerve power to the stomach. If we eat too much 
we over work the stomach. If there is too little 
nerve power to the stomach there will not be enough 
juices secreted to digest the food. 

Do not eat too often, the stomach needs rest. 
Avoid mustard, pepper, horse radish, catsup, spices, 
large amounts of salt and other seasonings, they 
irritate the stomach and weaken it, Do not take 
your food or drink too hot or too cold. I have 
found that people with electric temperament, that 
is, dark complected people, should have their food 
quite warm ; where as, those of a magnetic tempera- 
ment, that is, light complected people, do well on 
tolerably cool food. 

See and follow the treatment as laid down for 
dyspepsia and indigestion. 

LOSS OF APPETITE. 

If the patient has a poor circulation give the 
Osteopathic Treatment as laid down for Anaemia. 

Sup one-fourth of a glass of water every half 
hour. See Constipation Treatment. Live in the 
open, fresh air as much as possible ; take a sun bath 
every day and bathe the whole body twice a week. 
Avoid drugs, highly seasoned food and bitters, they 
do a great deal of harm and no good. No food 
should be eaten at the beginning of a disease or in 
fevers as there is little or no juice in the stomach 
to digest the food. Man is the only animal that 
will eat when he is sick. 






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SPKAINS. 

By falling and twisting the foot or limbs and by 
other accidental injuries the ligaments about va- 
rious joints may be suddenly stretched, constituting 
a sprain. The pain is usually severe and sharp, 
swelling and often redness of the parts follow. 

TEEATMENT. 

If commenced immediately apply cold running 
w r ater to the sprain. 

(1) In the immediate region of the sprain ma- 
nipulate gently but thoroughly all the muscles. 

(2) Give thorough extension and rotation of 
the joint. Give this treatment every day. 

Under no circumstances should the affected joint 
be used before recovery. 

SWEATING FEET. 

This is often caused by nervousness. Improve 
the general health and wash the feet night and 
morning. Take also a sponge bath daily, wear 
clean hose daily and shoes with good large soles. 
Go barefoot an hour each day, if possible, and ex- 
pose the feet to the sun. See the Kules of Health, 
rule 7 for sweating feet. 

SITZ BATH. 
In many of the treatments I have advised a sitz 
bath — possibly many will not know how this bath 
is snven. 



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An ordinary wash tub will do, put a brick or 
thick stick of wood under one side of the tub. Sit 
in the tub with the feet out side, have enough water 
to cover the hips. Have a blanket around the neck 
covering the tub. When taking a hot sitz bath add 
more hot water every few minutes. 

Fifteen to thirty minutes is long enough to re- 
main in the water if it is hot, if it is cold two to 
live minutes. 

The hot sitz bath is excellent to reduce pain, also 
in female and kidney troubles, etc. 

The cold sitz bath is splendid for piles and other 
diseases of the rectum, and to stop hemorrhage of 
the vagina, etc. 



SUN BATH. 

The sun bath is the exposure of the naked skin 
of the whole body to the sun shine. The sun bath 
is a splendid tonic and strengthener in all diseases. 
The patient should be so as to expose the whole 
body, excepting the head, to the sunshine. 

Beginning with ten minutes, increasing each day, 
a few minutes. At the end of each sun bath always 
sponge the body in tepid water. The sun bath is 
excellent in cases of bad nutrition, nervousness and 
skin diseases, consumption, dyspepsia, paralysis, 
neuralgia, rheumatism, hypochondria and conva- 
lescense from various acute diseases. See rule 
of the Rules of Health. 



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THE MUD BATH. 

The mud bath is taken by covering the whole or 
part of the body with soft mud — for from fifteen to 
thirty minutes. 

This bath is best when taken out in the onen air 
by a river or lake and combined with a sun bath. 

Always use dark or black earth or clav. Termin- 
ate the mud bath with a thorough washing. 

The mud bath is excellent in all skin diseases, 
catarrh, consumption and in many other com- 
plaints. 

A FEW THINGS THAT ABE GOOD TO DO IN 
ALL DISEASES. 

Have the windows open and see that the patient 
has plenty of fresh air. 

Give a quick sponge bath every day. 

Give the patient nothing to eat from twenty-four 
to forty-eight hours, drinking water when hungry. 

Apply cold cloths to the head and hot irons or 
bottles to the feet. 

If the patient has fever sponge with cool water 
over the back, chest and abdomen. 

Avoid tobacco, whiskey, meat, pastry, tea, coffee 
and fried foods. 



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BULES OP HEALTH. 

For many years I have been engaged daily in 
treating chronic diseases, and I am thankful to be 
able to say I have attained a success greater than 
has any other Osteopathic Physician that I know 
of— much greater than I dared hope for in my 
early experience. I attribute a greater part of that 
success to my putting my patients on the right 
track in their habits of living. I give all of them 
the following rules or directions, modifying some 
to suit the needs of each case. 

Strictly observed they are worth more to any 
young person, than would be a deed of the best 
farm in the state. 

1 ) You must sleep eight hours out of the twen- 
ty-four. For children ten, eleven or even twelve 
hours. Students eight or nine ; and laborers eight. 
Plenty of good sound sleep will cure nervous dis- 
eases. 

(2) After dinner lie down in a comfortably 
warm room for about thirty minutes, relaxing all 
your muscles and making yourself passive as possi- 
ble. By this means and a proper diet with very 
little manipulation I cure the very worst forms of 
dyspepsia. 

(3) Must dress loosely, not binding any part 
of the body tight with corsets, belts, straps, neck- 
ties or garters. Corsets kill more than cannon. 
Men only are slain in war. Nature keeps up the 



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balance by inducing women to slay themselves. Our 
passions, *pride and ignorance send us to the battle,, 
theirs send them to a slaughter as deadly; so that, 
after all, the sexes are kept nearly equal in the 
world; our greater exposure to the perils of travel 
on land and water and to dangerous and destruc- 
tive employments, being about balanced by their 
risks in child-birth and their follies in dress. 

At a very early age pride places these corsets 
and bands about the tender, delicate body of the 
school -girl. 

Tight belts sometimes cause inflammation and 
other serious disorders of the kidneys; tight neck- 
ties induce fullness of blood in the head, vertigo, 
dizziness, apoplexy, and even paralysis; tight gar- 
ters make cold feet, and worn long, cause bursting 
of the veins, and ugly sores on the shins and an- 
kles, interrupting the circulation in the extremi- 
ties, they turn to the brain, and so induce irritabil- 
ity of the nerves, headache, etc. 

(4) Yon innst suspend all garments from the 
shoulders — never front the hips or waist. Dress 
the hips and waist as loose for the day as you do 
for the night. If this rule is not fully observed 
there is no hope of recovery from weak back or 
loins, trembling knees or dragging down pains. 

Men often rupture themselves by not heeding this 
rule. 

Women induce diseases of the womb from hang- 
ing their skirts about their loins and hips instead 



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of from the shoulders. Can there be any greater 
folly than to attempt to cure these diseases with- 
out removing their cause? 

(5) Dress in light colors. The nearer white 
the better, under garments and all. 

(6) Spend in the sunlight at least six hours a 
day that the sun shines if you can, and the more 
the better. If confined in doors you should be be- 
fore a window where the sunlight will fall upon 
you for the time but it is better for you to be out, 
in it if you can, and if at first it causes you head- 
ache, shield the head and eyes; but remember the 
sun-light will do you little good if clad in dark gar- 
ments. These two rules are to be observed with 
the greatest care by those suffering from nervous- 
ness, catarrh or consumption. 

White transmits light, black absorbs it. See the 
difference between heat and light. Now what the 
human body needs is light, not the heat from the 
sun. 

On a bright sunny day, dressed in white one can 
walk nearly twice as far and endure nearly twice 
as much, as if dressed in black of the same texture. 
Then white disposes to cheerfulness and black to 
gravity and sadness. 

In our present style of living we do not get 
enough sunlight. It is unnatural to be housed up 
all day as we are, and we must suffer for it. The 
windows should be large, and not hidden with cur- 



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tains or blinds, nor shaded with trees. The fear of 
being tanned leads many women to eliolate them- 
selves till, like a bleached-celery plant, all whitened, 
they are fit only for the banquet of the grave 
Avorms. They and their children become scrofu- 
lous, consumptive, or cancerous, as do the coal min- 
ers of England and other countries, who spend 
their days in the dark mines. These miners are 
notorious for the prevalence of these diseases 
among them, and for rickets and deformities. 
Good health and good sense seek the sunny side of 
the car in riding, and the sunny side of the street 
in walking. They abhor the shade and the dark. 

(7) You must keep the feet dry, and if they 
perspire freely, must change the hose, and better, 
the shoes or boots, too, at least once or twice a day. 
Especially if you have catarrh or catch cold easily. 
Wear woolen hose in winter. 

Nervous, excitable people are very prone to clam- 
my, cold, damp feet. In some the soles and palms 
act vicariously for the kidneys. People say they 
sweat their feet, but it is not really a sweat, nor 
is it increased at all by warmth, but rather by the 
cold. It is the result of a very wakeful condition, 
and the secretion may be said to be the product of 
the worn-out brain and nerves. It is always moist 
when the mind is most excited. 

Public speakers, singers and actors suffer much 
from it, and it predisposes them to catch cold. It 
troubles least when idling and quiet. A few min- 



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utes' sleep will, at any time, dry up the soles made 
clammy by excitement. Children are much health- 
ier for going barefoot while the ground is warm. 
That draws the blood to the feet, and relieves the 
brain. 

In insanity, in certain forms of nervous diseases 
I advise this course for adults also. There is no 
better tonic for the nerves. But when the ground 
is cold, woolen socks and warm dry feet, are essen- 
tial to those prone to catarrhal troubles. 

It is by attention to these little things that I cure 
many diseases that are considered by conservative 
physicians, who never pay attention to these tri- 
fles, to be incurable. No disease is incurable if 
treated in time, and according to the dictates of 
common sense and a careful observance of Nature's 
laws. 

(8) Must not wear rubbers nor oilcloth at all 
while in doors and better not wear them more than 
two hours at a time. 

They retain the sweat and waste matter of the 
system till reabsorbed and thus the blood becomes 
laden with them — impure, heavy and poisonous. 

(9) Must not indulge in a strong drink of any 
Jcind nor in tobacco in any form, nor in opium, nor 
chloral, nor in any other narcotic or artificial stim- 
ulant. 

But it is best for the health that even a bad hab- 
it should not be broken too suddenly but gradually, 
that the system may not suffer from violence. Dr. 



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F. L. Matthay, the celebrated physician and healer 
cures all bad habits by mail. 

(a) You must not drink strong drinks or liq- 
uors of any kind. 

■(b) You must not use tobacco in any form. 

I take pains to repeat the main items of this rule 
for I attach much importance to the observance of 
them and I am well convinced that indulgence in 
one or more of the above is, by all odds, the most 
common cause of disease in the land. 

It has been justly remarked that insanity and 
other nervous diseases are increasing at a fearfully 
rapid rate. I add at a not more rapid rate than is 
the consumption of the above poisons. Some men 
deem themselves witty in the remark that these are 
very slow poisons because some have used them and 
lived to a very old age. Yet every one knows that 
there is not one of them, but what will, in small 
quantities destroy the life of a child or even a man 
unaccustomed to them. But the system soon learns 
to tolerate and relish all these. Yet who shall say 
that because of such tolerance they do not harm? 

I have practiced too long to allow my patients 
to deceive themselves with the hope that indulgence 
in such things does them no injury. If my convic- 
tions in this respect were not well based, I would 
be but too happy to yield them, for many refuse to 
submit to my treatment, because I deprive them of 
other doctors that are more accommodating and 
these luxuries, and they have no difficulty in finding 



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less scrupulous — doctors who indulge in such 
things themselves and who permit their families to 
indulge and who are not ashamed that they and 
theirs suffer as much from ill-health as do their 
patients. 

(c) You must not drink tea, coffee or chocolate 
to excess, not drinking over one cup at each meal, 
When you are thirsty drink what the birds drink, 
what the beasts drink, Avhat all creatures drink. It 
is enough, the universal perfect drink. No harm 
to take a glass of water But I find it is advisable 
to drink water in small quantities and often; sip- 
ping about one-half glass every hour, and especially 
one-half glass before each meal. 

This stimulates the action of the stomach and in- 
fluences the circulation which causes increased ap- 
petite and consequently increased nutrition and 
vitality. 

Do not be so foolish as to hope to cure dyspepsia 
with bitters and pills. The reason it is so rarely 
cured and that so many travel far and wide in seek 
of relief, yet still continue to suffer is that the phy- 
sicians do not appreciate these laws but allow their 
patients to carry their bad habits with them. 

( 10 ) Must not eat any sausage, mince pie, head- 
cheese, salt meats, nor salt -fish, nor pork in any 
form or preparation, salt or fresh, fat or lean 
anything that ever came from any part of a hog — • 
as lard or ham, or soused feet; uor any food boiled 
with meat or cooked with grease. 



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Pork, in whatever way prepared, is a coarse, rank 
diseased meat, and there is just as good reason to 
prohibit its use today as there was in the days of 
Moses. There are many sick people and many that 
are only half well in this country, from eating the 
unclean hog. 

Mixed meats, whether as sausage, hash, mince 
pie or whatever else are greasy, foul and offensive 
to the body, if not the tongue. 

Those who are all day out doors may burn them 
off through the breath, but those of sedentary hab- 
its cannot stand them. The life is gone too long 
and far from salt meats or fish; they should not 
be eaten. Used to the exclusion of the fresh, they 
induce scurvy. They tend to bind the bowels, and 
cause fever and thirst. Ah, says one, your laws 
are good for the rich, but I am too poor, or too far 
from the market, to get fresh meat often. Well. 
I answer, you can do without it, without any meat, 
for a long time. We eat vastly too much meat in 
this country. Some of the healthiest men in the 
world eat it but rarely — once or twice a year. The 
Highland soldier, a well-built, strong, healthy man, 
is raised on oats; the laborer in Ireland, of fine 
form, good health, and quick wit, on potatoes, with 
only a rasher of bacon for Christmas ; the Hollander 
grows fat and large on cabbage. Coming to this 
country, they eat salt meats, drink tea and coffee, 
and get bilious with withered and black lips, bad 
breath, foul stomach, and then come and ask me if 



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I would advise them to go back to the Old Country 
for their health. They would be just as well here 
as there if they would, live on the same kind of food. 
I find some few that, having accumulated property, 
do go back, but having means to procure the same 
food and drink there as here, find themselves no 
better for the change, and then return to America 
perplexed and discouraged. I have put more than 
one such on the right track. 

No vegetable should be cooked with meat, but in 
clean water. Cabbage boiled with meat, onions 
fried with steak, will be tasted six hours after eat 
ing; but cabbage boiled in pure water, is as digesti- 
ble as bread, and an excellent article of diet ; so are 
onions boiled in pure water, with a little salt, or 
better still, baked. 

Fried meat is an abomination to a weak stomach 
or diseased liver. Indeed no food should be cooked 
in or with grease at this side of Labrador. They 
can stand it there. 

(11) Must not eat any fried food whatever or 
warm oread or biscuit, especially if prone to bil- 
iousness. 

(12) You must not make an exclusive or too 
free a 'use of bread, toast, crackers, cake, pudding 
or pastry made of white or bolted flour, thev all con- 
stipate; so does cheese. Unbolted flour is much 
better. Cheese is a very rich article of animal diet 
and one very difficult of digestion. 



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(13) Must not eat meat more than twice a day 
and it should be lean and fresh, the more rarely 
done the better. 

Beef or mutton is best, game in season is good ; 
fowl is not bad, but you must not eat the stuffing 
or dressing. Some people may with propriety eat 
meat two or three times a day. While others are 
better for not eating it at all. And it is not easy 
here to advise. 

If bilious you must use all kinds of animal food 
very sparingly, if at all for they all tend to load and 
clog the liver. 

(a) Better eat no animal food, not even milk, 
until well. Butter makes one bilious. You must 
abstain from it. This rule is given only to those in 
a bilious condition. 

Butter is a delicious and tempting grease, a great 
cause of sick headache, heart-burn, water-brash, 
green, catarrh, pimples, boils, etc., but not apt to 
cause any two of these in the same person. 

(14) Eat heartily of fruits and vegetables two 
or three times a day, but the fruits must be fresh 
and ripe, and the vegetables, when cooked, must 
be thoroughly cooked — baked, roasted or boiled in 
soft, pure water. 

Some of my patients come and say, after reading 
my rules, that I am going to starve them. See what 
they include : potatoes, tomatoes, corn, oatmeal, 
peas, beans, barley, rice, beets, turnips, cabbage, 
onions, celery, asparagus, cauliflower, parsnips, cu- 



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cumbers, melons, all the different berries, cherries, 
plums, prunes, grapes, figs, oranges, apples — an 
abundant list to be partaken of two or three times 
a day, and by children oftener. With a little skill 
in cooking, an excellent meal may be made without 
going beyond these, except, perhaps, to add a little 
milk or very little butter for sauce, and that only 
in cooking a few of them. There is no better arti- 
cle of diet than a good potato or a good apple. 

But a raw, half cooked potato, though good for 
the cattle, is a poor thing for a man ; yet it is often 
found on the table in that state. 

(15) Must abstain from pickles and relishes of 
all kinds, and from condiments, pepper, salt, mus- 
tard, horse-radish, etc. 

Pickles set the teeth on edge and destroy them. 
They contain little or no nourishment, are of no use 
to the economy only as they may please the taste, or 
perhaps stimulate an abnormal appetite for food 
when the system has no need of it; so of most of 
the relishes. But I do not persist in a very strict 
observance of this rule except in some forms of in- 
digestion, catarrh, pimples, red or inflamed nose 
or lips and scaly eruptions; and I always forbid 
salt to those suffering any kind of rheumatism or 
its traces, also certain affections of the heart, or 
joints, lumbago, sciatica and neuralgia. 

I am certain that it aggravates all these. Where 
entirely free from them, I permit its use in moder- 
ation, remembering that a desire for it, while nat- 



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ural to a very large class of creatures, including 
ourselves, may be by habit or excitement increased 
to an abnormal extent. Watch your use of salt and 
salted food. 

(16) You should take your food moderately 
warm, not cold or hot. I have found those of a 
dark electric temperament to do better on warm 
food and warm drinks, and all those of a light mag- 
netic temperament on cool food and drink. 

The temperament of the stomach can be told by 
looking at the lips ; if they are dark red or purplish 
the stomach is electric and warm food and drink is 
best ; if they are bright red the stomach is magnetic 
and cool food and drink will be found advisable. 

Extremes of temperature in food or drink destroy 
the teeth, vitiate the saliva and impair the diges- 
tion. 

(17) May use moderately of sugar, so of molas- 
ses or syrup; but must abstain from all colored can- 
dies. They are injurious. Do not eat too freely of 
sweets. They inflame the liver as much as fats do. 

Sweets of all kinds tend to induce heat and in- 
flammation first, and most obviously of the mu- 
cous membrane, catarrh, colds, sore throat, and 
second, and more remote of the skin, inducing, pim- 
ples, itching and eruptions. The wise use sweets 
only in moderation. 

Nearly all the colors of candy are injurious and 
made of offensive substances. 



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Much of the blame that is laid to sugar, belongs 
to the colors in candies. These colors please the 
eye and poison the stomach. 

( 18) You must keep your rooms well ventilated, 
especially sleeping rooms. A sleeping room should 
have at least one window open all day till about 
sundown, then close it, when the weather is damp, 
cold or chilly, have a fire built in an open fire place 
or a stove with an open draught if you can. 

Better sleep alone. If your room is small, any- 
thing less than twelve feet square and nine feet high 
you must sleep with your door slightly open, so as 
to admit the dry air from the hall or other rooms, 
or else sleep with your window slightly open. If 
your throat and lungs are healthy and the region 
free from malaria, you will be safe to sleep with 
your window open. Be careful not to sleep in a 
draught. 

( 19 ) If your throat and lungs are over sensitive 
or diseased, you must carefully avoid exposure to 
night air. If it is necessary to go out breathe 
through the nostrils only. If unable to breathe 
through the nose put a muffler or your sleeve or 
handkerchief to the mouth. This rule also applies 
to public singers and speakers. 

(20) Yoit must exercise in the open air by icalk- 
ing, riding, skating, rowing, fishing or whatever 
you delight in, at least two hours a day, storm or 
shine taking care to protect yourself from inclem- 
ent weather. Increase your exercise gradually 






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both in vigor and length of time as your strength 
increases, be moderate at first until you become ac- 
customed to it. Carefully avoid exercising to 
weariness or fatigue — always stop short of that. 
This is a busy world and yet there is more sick in 
it from idleness and the languor and debility which 
it causes than from hard work. Many women are 
invalids because their employments give no exer- 
cise, no fresh air or sunlight, they accustom them- 
selves to confinement in doors and come to dread 
going out till the muscles get so weak they cannot 
walk a mile. 

Some hardihood, exposure and endurance are es- 
sential to good health. 

(21) You must practice deep breathing in the 
open air at least three times a day, taking large in- 
halations of pure air, through the nose expanding 
the chest to its utmost capacity. Always walk erect 
with the shoulders thrown well back. For those 
who are inclined to be stoop shouldered I would ad- 
vise the use of the Ideal Shoulder Brace until the 
correct position of the shoulders becomes natural. 

(22) Do not fret, worry or allow excitement of 
the passions. 

We have many illustrations of the fatal results 
of such. I have not room here even for one, but 
simply to say that they are becoming more numer- 
ous daily. Who does not know that anger makes 
the heart beat violently,flushes the face and retards 
digestion ; that sorrow brings tears to the eyes and 

u •/ o. 



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wastes the tissues of the body ; that fright causes 
physical exhaustion and sometimes results in the 
loss of sight or hearing? 

The white lips of rage or fear show how quickly 
the heart draws its supplies home, while the redden- 
ing neck and cheek of modesty show equally how 
swiftly it can pour a generous supply to the head 
and face. The continuance of the deeper, sadder 
and more unhappy feelings are especially powerful 
in depressing the circulation and in producing va- 
rious diseases. 

Perhaps jealousy and her malignant sister envy, 
do more in this direction than does any other of the 
horrid brood of passions. As far as possible main- 
tain a cheerful, hopeful, trustful, contented state of 
mind. Many will remark, "That is easy to say, but 
impossible to do." It is not impossible. Make up 
your mind that you can and will. The power lies 
within you— possess your own soul — be yourself. 

The author expects to publish soon a book called 
The Influence of the Mind on Organs of The Body 
and Mental Cause and Cure of Disease. 

(23) You must bathe or ivash the tvhole person 
once a day in summer and at least once a iveek in 
winter. 

I do not attach as much importance to the daily 
bath as I did, but I cannot conceive of a condition 
of life in which a bath once a week is not essential 
to good health and cleanliness. 



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Those who follow dusty pursuits should bathe 
daily so should those who are bilious, for through 
the skiu may thus be worked off much of what oth- 
erwise would clog the liver. 

The best time for painters and those who work in 
dusty or foul air, or air loaded with impure or poi- 
sonous vapors, to bathe, is just before retiring to 
remove such poisons from the skin, else they will 
be absorbed during sleep. 

Remember the skin absorbs, takes in matter 
whether good or bad rapidly in sleep or in drowsy, 
lazy moods, but very little when one is wide awake, 
bright or excited; but, on the contrary exhales or 
throws off matter very rapidly. 

If you are exposed to malaria or any contagious 
disease always keep wide awake, even if you have 
to take strong tea to do it. As soon as the expos- 
ure is over change your garments and bathe thor- 
oughly, use soap, then put the exposed garments 
away. If exposed to smallpox put them in an oven 
and bake them, put on clean night garments and 
you can retire and sleep in safety. In such cases 
always clean the ears, beard and meshes of the hair 
thoroughly, they are apt to retain dust and conta- 
gion. 

(24) Wash the feet and lower parts of the body 
especially the latter, before retiring. Both health 
and cleanliness demand this on the part of both 
sexes and all ages. It is wonderful how uncleanly 
some otherwise decent people are where they do not 
expect to be seen. 



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The health and strength of the sexual and uni- 
nary organs are greatly promoted by this daily 
lavement and it does much toward preventing piles 
and also emissions and seminal weakness in men, 
and to promote strength and vigor of the womb, 
ovaries and back in women. 

Children should be taught at a very early age, to 
pay attention to these important parts of the body. 

(25) Avoid any great excitement or indulgence, 
however honest, legitimate or lawful, of the sex 
passion. You have reason to be particularly guard- 
ed and careful in this respect, if you suffer from 
weakness, debility or pains in the back or loins — 
especially in the small of the back, across the back 
part of the hips — or if you experience great languor 
and lassitude, with aversion to exertion or unus- 
ual irritability of the nerves. 

This is the most important of all these rules or 
directions, for there is no other habit in practice 
more destructive to life and health than that of in- 
dulging too freely in the sex passion, even in the 
martial relation, or in private practices, or in 
dreams, or indeed indulging in it at all before the 
age of maturity. It destroys many even very young 
children, frequently causing convulsions, epilepsy 
and other disturbances of the nervous system. 

I know of no other cause of disease and death 
and disaster to the race as great as that of over in- 
dulgence of the sex passion. True, it is nature's 
method in many things — what creates also destroys. 



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Growth and decay are convertible terms. Oh, it is 
our appetites and passions that lead us down to 
Avoe. Well, Ave must watch and control them all 
and always, if we would have SAveet health, peace 
and happiness. 



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A PEW CLOSING AVOKDS. 

Your body is indispensable to your existence 
here, it is yours to honor, preserve and defend. Do 
not poison or injure it and remember nature alone 
is the skillful repairer of damage to your body. 
Aid her in every way possible and do not admit such 
tramps and loafers as tobacco, alcohol and poison- 
ous drugs. 

Investigate. Learn what a wonderful structure 
your body is, learn Iioav every part is intended for 
use, how delicate the structure and how easily de- 
stroyed. 

People fail to realize the importance of keeping 
clean, they are filthy inside and out and erronously 
think that disease is caused by germs or climate, 
they formerly believed they were caused by the 
devil. 

In time of sickness if you do not understand the 
laws of your body and teachings of this book, then, 
and then only, call a physician, but see that he is a 
follower of nature and not a believer in false doc- 
trines ; that disease is a devil and has to be poison- 
ed out of the system. Drugs, antitoxine, vaccina- 
tion, etc., are no better than dead lice for indiges- 
tion and black beetles for the kidneys, the two lat- 
ter being Chinese cures, but just as sensible as 
some used by the medical men today. 



iinde:?c. 



A Few Closing Words 82 

A Few Things Good to do in All 

Diseases 63 

Ache, Head 37 

Acute Articular Rheumatism 48 

Acute Dysentery 24 

Acute Nasal Catarrh 25 

Acute Pharyngitis 54 

Amenorrhea 56 

Anemia 13 

Antitoxine 82 

Appendicitis '.* 16 

Appetite, Loss of 60 

Articular Rheumatism 48 

Articular Rheumatism, Chronic 50 

Asthma 18 

Bad Hearing 21 

Bathe 78 

Bath, Mud 63 

Bath, Sitz 61 

Bath, Sun 62 

Bed Wetting 22 

Blood, Impure 24 

Blood, Too Much 58 

Bloody Flux 24 

Bowels, Inflammation of 38 

Breathing 77 

Breathing Difficult 30 

Bronchitis 25 

Catarrh Nasal 25 

Catarrhal Pneumonia 48 

Chloral 68 

Chronic Articular Rheumatism 50 

Coffee, Tea, etc 70 

Cold Feet 26 

Cold in Head 25 

Conjunctivitis ! 53 

Constipation 28 

Consumption of Lungs 29 

Corsets 64 

Costiveness 28 

Croupous Pneumonia 47 



Cure, Water 12 

Deformities 67 

Difficult Breathing 30 

Diphtheria . s 30 

Diseases, Things good in 63 

Diseases of Kidneys , . , 40 

Diseases, Skin 58 

Diseases of Womb 65 

Disorders, Sexual 40 

Dizziness 55 

Dress 66 

Drink 68-69 

Drugs 82 

Dysentery 24 

Dysmenorrhea 33 

Dyspepsia 34 

Emissions 80 

Enuresis 22 

Enlarged Tonsils 55 

Enteritis 38 

Envy ...78 

Eruptions, Scaly 74 

Exercise 76 

Exposure 76 

Eyelids Granulated 53 

Eyes, Inflammation of 53 

Eyes Sore 53 

Feet Cold 26 

Feet Dry 67 

Feet Sweating 61 

Fever Simple 35 

Flux 24 

Fret 77 

Fried Foods 72 

Fruits 73 

Garments, Suspend 65 

Gastritis 37 

Gleet 40 

Gonorrhea 40 

Granulated Eyelids 53 

Grip 39 

Head-ache '. 37 



INDE X— Continued . 

Head, Cold in 25 Profuse Menstruation 57 

Health, Rules of 64-82 Prostration Nervous 42 

Hearing Bad 21 Quinsy or Tonsillitis 54 

Hydropathy 12 Relishes 74 

Hygienic Medication 10 Rheumatism Acute Articular 48 

Impotence 40 Rheumatism Chronic Articular 50 

Impure Blood 24 Rheumatism Muscular 52 

Indigestion 34 Rickets and Deformities 67 

Indulgence 80 Rubbers 68 

Inflammation of Bowels 38 Pules of Health 64-82 

Inflammation of Eyes 53 Rupture 65 

Influenza 39 Scaly Eruptions 74 

Itching 75 Scanty Menstruation , 57 

Kidney Diseases '..WW. ........... A0 Sciatica 52 

Da Grippe 39 Seminal Weakness 80 

Liver Torpid '. '. '. .' 40 Sexual Disorders 40 

Loss of Appetite' .' ,' ..'.'..'.".'.'.'.'.'.. W.Qi) Sex Passion 80-81 

Lungs, Consumption of 29 Simple Fever 35 

Lung Fever 47 Satz Bath 61 

Masturbation ~. . .40 Skin Diseases 58 

Meat 73 Sleep 64 

Medication Hygienic 10 Smallpox 79 

Menorrhagia 57 Sore Eyes 53 

Menstruation Painful 33 Sore Throat 54 

Menstruation Profuse 57 Sprains 61 

Menstruation Scanty 57 Stomach, Weak 58 

Menstruation Suppresed 56 Sun Bath 62 

Mud Bath 63 Sunlight 66 

Muscular Rheumatism 52 Suppressed Menstruation 56 

Neuralgia 44 Sweating Feet 61 

Neurasthenia 42 Syphilis 40 

Obesity 58 Te ' a ' Coffee, etc 70 

Oligomenorrhea 57 Th ' r oat Sore 54 

Opium 68 Tonsillitis 54 

Osteopathy 11 Tonsils Enlarged ' 55 

Ovaries 80 To ° Mucn Blood 5S 

Painful Menstruation' .' .' .' ... WW .... 33 Torpid Liver 40 

Palsy 45 Tuberculosis 29 

Paralysis . ......'.'.'.'. .'.'.'.'.'. 45 Vaccination 82 

Passions 77 Vegetables 73 

Pharyngitis 54 Ventilation 76 

Pickles 74 Vertigo 55 

Pil es g Water Cure 12 

Pimples' " '74 Weak Eyes 53 

Plethora 58 Weak Stomach 58 

Pleurisy 45 Weakness Seminal 80 

Pneumonia' Catarrhal ' .' .' ......WW" 48 Wetting Bed 22 

Pneumonia Croupous 47 Womb Diseases of 80 

Principles of Hygienic Medication. . .10 



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1. State your age, weight, height, sex and occupation. Complexion, light 

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2. Married or single. 

3. Seat of disease. 

4. Present symptoms and their duration. 

5. Condition of bowels and color of urine. 

6. How you sleep, time of retiring, of rising. 

7. Number of meals per day, when taken and of what do they consist? 
S. Amount and kind of fluids drunk daily. 

9. If any, quantity of beer, wine or whiskey drunk. 

10. How often a bath or wash all over? 

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13. Kind and amount of tobacco, if used. 

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16. Did any of your near relatives have Consumption, Asthma or Scrofula? 

17. Did any of your near relatives ever have the disease you have? 
IS. Have you ever had Pneumonia or Scarlet Fever? 

19. What other diseases have you had? 

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